Improvement in hair-batting machines



L. r LANNAY. Hair- Batting Machines.

Pa tented Dec. 81,1874.

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UNITED STA ES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS F. LANNAY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAlR-BATTlNG MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,615, dated December 8, 1874; application filed September 24, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS F. LANNAY, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Hair-Batting Maturning apron being in the open condition for delivery. Fig. 2 is a vertical section parallel to said side, showing the same apron in its closed or effective condition. Fig. 3 is a vertical section at the line 00 00.

The following parts may be of usual form, namely: Frame A, endless feed apron B, armed and matched feed rollers O O, armed batting-cylinder D, and armed cage-bars E.

My improvement relates Wholly to the device for restoring and re-incorporating in the lap or bat, as fast as separated, the fugitive hairs expelled by the batting mechanism. This device consists essentially of a shell or concave, F F, which extends from side to side of the machine, said shell being somewhat eccentric with respect to the cylinder, so as to leave a wider space toward the delivery, and a portion of it, F, underneath the cylinder and on the delivery side of the machine, consisting of a hinged flap, which, during the operation of accumulating the bat, is held at the position shown in Fig. 2 by means of handle G, which engages over catch H, and which, during the operation of doffing the bat, is dropped to the position represented in Fig. l, the said flap then resting upon the bar I.

The operation is as follows: The flap F being closed, hair in sufficient quantity for the desired bat is fed in on endless apron B. The hairs which escape from the cylinder are caught in the concave F F, and continually raked back by the spikes on the under side of the cylinder to the place of reception, where they again commingle with the substance of the bat. A few rotations of the cylinder, after all the hair for one bat has been fed in, suffice to substantially gather all the fugitive staple. The cylinder is then arrested, the flap F is let down, and the bat opened by a trans verse cut or tear with a stick at any part of its circuit, and the cylinder being slowly rotated, the now finished bat is led out of the machine. I

I claim as new and of my invention- The described combination, with a battingcylinder, -D, and feed-apron B, of the converging concave F F beneath said cylinder, whose portion F on the delivery side consists of a hinged flap opening rearward, as and for the purpose designated.

'In testimony of which invent-ion I hereunto set my hand.

LOUIS F. LANNAY. Witnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, WM. F. PARKS. 

